422 NECESSITY - NEGLECT - SLIGHT. 12. Lovely indeed the mimic works of art, But Nature's works far lovelier. COWPER'S Task. 13. Thro' nature's walk your curious way you take, 14. SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. Go abroad Upon the paths of Nature, and, when all 15. "Tis Nature moulds the touching face, N. P. WILLIS. J. K. PAULDING. 1. Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, GRAY'S Elegy. 2. Ah me! full sorely is my heart forlorn, To think how modest worth neglected lies; 3. Be thou the first true merit to befriend; 4. In this perverted age, Who most deserve, can't always most engage; SHENSTONE. POPE. It often hinders what it should procure. YOUNG. 5. Change thou the first, nor wait thy lover's flight. PRIOR. 6. Have I not manag'd my contrivance well, DRYDEN. 7. Come, come, 't will not do! put that purling brow down; You can't, for the soul of you, learn how to frown. HENRY KIRK WHITE. 8. Wi' curling lip, and scornful een, She listen'd to all he said, While the moon look'd down, and the twinkling sheen Of the stars is o'er them shed. My heart is wae for the luckless knight, And his prayer is a bootless prayer. S. P. CHASE. 1. The rabble gather round the man of news, And listen with their mouths wide open: Some tell, some hear, some judge of news, some make it, And he that lies most loud, is most believ'd. 2. This folio of four pages, happy work, Which not e'en critics criticise; that holds Fast bound in chains of silence, which the fair, DRYDEN. COWPER'S Task. 3. The news! our morning, noon, and evening cry, And wears your threshold and your patience out; We ask "What news?" - then lay him in the ground. SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. 4. The news!—there scarcely is a word, I'll venture here to say, That o'er men's thoughts and fancies holds more universal The old, sway; the young, the grave, the gay, the wealthy and All wish, on each succeeding day, to hear it o'er and o'er, before. J. T. WATSON. 2. He swore the world, as he could prove, SHAKSPEARE. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 3. Now fiction's groves we tread, where young romance Laps the glad senses in her sweetest trance. SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. 4. She shuts the dear, dear book that made her weep, Puts out her light, and turns away to sleep. SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. 5. The gorgeous pageantry of times gone by,- And fancy's bright and gay creation—all S. L. FAIRField. 426 NOVELTY - NUN-OATHS. 6. I'm not romantic, but, upon my word, There are some moments when one can't help feeling By things around him, that, 't is vain concealing, Whene'er its keys are touch'd by Nature's fingers. C. F. HOFFMAN. NOVELTY. 1. New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous, Nay, let them be unmanly, yet are follow'd. SHAKSPEARE. 2. All, with one consent, praise new-born gauds, 3. Papilla, wedded to her amorous spark, All bath'd in tears "O odious, odious trees!" POPE'S Moral Essays. 4. Of all the passions that possess mankind, The love of novelty rules most the mind; FOOTE. OATHS-SWEARING. 1. 'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow that is vow'd true. SHAKSPEARE. |